Life, 1921-04-07 · page 32 of 38
Life — April 7, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This magazine page is predominantly **advertising** for financial services (Guaranty Trust Company travelers checks) and consumer products (Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Bell-Ans indigestion remedy). However, it includes **humor content** on the right, notably "Asking for Trouble," which is **Irish political satire** from this period. The joke mocks Irish nationalist sentiment during a tense time (likely around WWI-era Irish independence movements). When Northern Irish schoolboys are asked who the "Supreme Being" is, they answer "Sir Edward Carson" (an actual Ulster politician opposed to Irish independence), then reluctantly say "God." In private, they express Sinn Féin sympathies—"ye bloomin' little Sinn Feiner"—suggesting nationalist tensions between generations. The other humor pieces are mild period jokes about courtship, pets, and social customs.
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